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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A knight.
(b) A bird.
(c) A horse.
(d) A falconer.

2. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?
(a) A ball being thrown.
(b) An arrow.
(c) An ice skater.
(d) A swing.

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) Christ.
(b) A Victorian minister.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) The poet's spouse.

4. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?
(a) Personification and consonance.
(b) Consonance and assonance.
(c) Assonance and euphony.
(d) Euphony and personification.

5. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?
(a) "Level."
(b) "Him."
(c) "Rolling."
(d) "Air."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

3. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?

5. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?

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